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Japan’s nuclear regulator formally approves release of Fukushima wastewater to the Pacific

Japan’s nuclear regulator on Friday formally approved a plan to release
more than a million tonnes of treated water from the crippled Fukushima
nuclear power plant into the ocean.

The plan has already been adopted by
the government and endorsed by the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA), but plant operator TEPCO must still win over local communities
before going ahead. The country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority approved
TEPCO’s plan, according to a foreign ministry statement, which said the
government would ensure the safety of the treated water as well as the
“reliability and transparency of its handling”.

 Daily Mail 22nd July 2022

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11038705/Japan-regulator-OKs-release-treated-Fukushima-water.html

July 22, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima continuing